Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Occupy Wall Street Vs. the American War Machine
Where a state stands on the international scale impacts the fate of that state's social movements. The United States' position as a global military power puts the Occupy Wall Street movement at a particular disadvantage.
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, 75,000 people descended on Chicago to protest the NATO summit, two judges sided with Occupy Wall Street against the NYPD, the indefinite detention clause of the NDAA was halted by a judge, several shareholders meetings were #occupied and protesters swarmed the G8, despite its move to isolated Camp David.
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A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
For the general population, the situation is bad and could get worse, says Noam Chomsky. This could be a period of irreversible decline, where the 1% and the .1% are more powerful than ever, controlling the political system and disregarding the public.
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The Rise of the New Economy Movement
As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models.
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Climate and the Commons
To stop climate change, we have to stop neoliberal capitalism.
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Quebec Inches Closer to Martial Law
An “emergency law” to “restore order” in Quebec amounts to a declaration of war on the student movement as mass protests continue against proposed 80% increase in tuition costs.
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Gill Tract Arrests Expose University Elitism
On Earth Day—April 22, 2012—about 200 people, accompanied by children in strollers, dogs, rabbits, chickens, and carrying hundreds of pounds of compost and at least 10,000 seedlings entered a 14-acre piece of land containing the last Class I agricultural soil in the East Bay.
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Billionaire Debunks "Job Creator" Myth
A billionaire admits the truth: the rich are not job creators. The only thing that stimulates the economy is supply and demand. In other words: the consumer. You have more power in the broader economy than the wealthiest industrialist.
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Chicago Police Ignore Constitution, Abduct Activists
Millions of armed servicemembers did not die in foreign wars so that timid politicians could legislate away the basic freedoms they fought to protect.
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Chicago Dispatch: Vets Toss Medals of Honor, Call NATO Summit a Disgrace
“I'm doing this here, now, because our enemy is not overseas, our enemy is in the corporate boardrooms, right over there in those NATO conference rooms, right here at home,” said a veteran.
